Operation and Repertoire: The Textuality of Commedia dell’Arte Scenarios. Salvatori Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, April 16, 2014.

Migrant Poetry in Italy: Multiple Identities and the Memory of a Literary Form. 21st AISLLI Conference Italicity: The Languages of Italy in the United States between Tradition and Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, April 3-5, 2013.

A Controversial Identity: Italy and Its Literary Images. Tour the World Lecture Series, Portland State University, July 20, 2011.

Through the Oumfô of Creolization, and What Kamau Brathwaite Found There. Conference Vodou & Créolité, Franklin College, Lugano, April 7-9, 2011.

Migrant storytelling: trauma, history, stories and restoration in contemporary multicultural literature in Italy. Conference: 21st Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, University of St. Andrews, September 15-17, 2010.

Literature of Migration in Contemporary Italy. Portland State University, February 22, 2010.

Migrant Writings in Italian: An Outline of Themes, Practices, Trends and Questions. University of Oregon, February 17, 2010.